“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” Harriet van Horne
TODAY'S BOOK
Kook en Geniet (Cook and Enjoy It) - S J A de Villiers
I would have included this book anyway at some stage, but decided to talk about it today as a small tribute to its author, Mrs SJA de Villiers, who passed away 2 days ago at the age of 91.
Kook en Geniet was my first cook book. It was a book prize at school (for doing well in Biology, no less!) and I was only too happy to have a copy of it, since it had been more or less the standard cook book in the country for a long time already by the time I received a copy of its 22nd impressum. It is illustrated by only four colour photographs - the rest, although numerous, are in black and white and if one looks at them today, the table settings and other items also tell quite a lot about of the interior decoration and style of the times.
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